Thread: Five Busy Roads With Worst Traffic Jams In Bangkok

Thai PBS News
November 14, 2014

The Transport Ministry has revealed five busiest roads in the capital that have the worst traffic jams with traffic flow speed of 24.34 kilometres an hour.

The five busiest roads are:

1. Ngamwongwan road from Yaek Kaelai to Yaek Kaset.
2. Sri Ayutthaya road from Yaek Makkasan to Yaek Sisao Theves.
3. Sukhumvit road from Yaek Bang Na to Yaek Ploenjit.
4. Phaholyothin road from Yaek Laksi to Yaek Lardprao.
5. Ratchadapisek road from Yaek Ratchavibha to Yaek Rama 9.

The ministry said average traffic flow speed from Yaek Kaelai to Yaek Kaset has dropped from 36.95 kms/hr in 2011 to 24.34 kms/hr in 2013.

It said main reasons for the traffic jams on this section of the road were gridlocks where continuous queues of vehicles block an entire network of intersecting roads, construction of subway and sky train projects, railway crossings, and toll gates of the expressway system where vehicles queuing up to pay toll.

It also said there are 34 railway crossings which cause traffic jams in the capital. They included Yommaraj, Sri Ayutthaya, Ratchavithi, Nakhon Chaisri, Sethsiri, Ranong 1, Pradipat, Prachanives, Ngamwongwan, Chaengwattana, Talad Son Mueang Kao, Air Force HQ.

Five busy roads with worst traffic jams in Bangkok - Thai PBS English News

I suspect that the method for calculating the average speed is slightly flawed by only including the time during which the vehicles are actually moving, or the statistics were collected in the middle of the night.

If the amount of time vehicles spend at a dead stop is included, that 24.34 km/hr figure might drop to something like 3 km/hr at peak hours.

I use number 5 every morning, it's about an 8km stretch.

I generally get along there faster than it takes to get from my home on Thong Lor to Petchburi Road which is about half a kilometre.

In fact my office is on the crossroads of 4 and 5.....

change place to stay far from traffic,,lol